Claudio Maccone
Claudio Maccone | |
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| Born | 6 February 1948 |
| Education | King's College London |
| Occupation(s) | SETI astronomer, space scientist and mathematician |
| Awards | Giordano Bruno Award |
Claudio Maccone (born 6 February 1948, in Torino, Italy)[1] is an Italian SETI astronomer, space scientist and mathematician.[2]
Career
[edit]He obtained two degrees from the University of Turin: in physics in 1972 and in mathematics in 1974.[citation needed] He obtained his PhD at the Department of mathematics of King's College London, England in September 1980.[1]
In 1985 he briefly held a position as "Professore di ruolo" in Mathematics at "Liceo Scientifico Albert Einstein" in Turin.
He then joined the Space Systems Group of Aeritalia (later called Alenia Spazio S.p.A. and now Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A.) in Turin on September 19,1985, and immediately got involved in the design of new space missions.[1]
In 2002 he was awarded the "Giordano Bruno Award" by the SETI League, "for his efforts to establish a radio observatory on the far side of the Moon."[2]
After his early retirement from Alenia Spazio S.p.A. on December 30, 2004, he taught at Politecnico di Torino for five years (2005-2009) at Post-Doctoral level. He was Advisor to Ph.D. candidates in the Aerospace and Electronics Departments of Politecnico di Torino.
Since 2010 he is the Director for Scientific Space Exploration of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA, based in Paris, France).[3]
From 2012 to 2021 he served as Chair of the IAA SETI Permanent Committee.[4]
He has published 149 scientific and technical papers.[citation needed]
Books
[edit]- 1994 Telecommunications, KLT and Relativity, IPI Press, Colorado Springs, USA[5]
- 1998 The Sun as a Gravitational Lens: Proposed Space Missions, IPI Press, Colorado Springs, USA (proposing FOCAL space telescope), IAA Book Award 1999
- 2009 Deep Space Flight and Communications – Exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens, Praxis-Springer[1][6] The book was translated into Chinese by 2014 and awarded the IAA Book Award in 2018[7]
- 2012 Mathematical SETI - Statistics, Signal Processing, Space Missions[8]
- 2021 Evo-SETI – Life Evolution Statistics on Earth and Exoplanets.[9] It won the Mathematical Astrobiology, IAA Book Award 2022.
- 2024 The Living Galaxy, co-authored with Eugenio Mieli and Andrea M. F. Valli
Honours and awards
[edit]- The central main-belt binary asteroid 11264 Claudiomaccone was named in Maccone's honor[10]
- Maccone is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and an Associate of “Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)” in Italy.
- Since December 2021 Maccone is serving as Chair of the IAA Moon Farside Protection Permanent Committee. His Co-chair is Prof. Jack O. Burns (University of Colorado at Boulder).
- On February 8, 2024, Maccone gave his third speech at the United Nations COPUOS in Vienna about the Moon Farside Protection.
- On March 21-22, 2024, Maccone and co-workers run the First IAA Symposium on Moon Farside Protection in Turin (Torino, Italy)[11]
External links
[edit]- The Sun's Gravity lens and its use for Interstellar Exploration NASA-JPL TALK, August 18th, 1999
- Deep Space Flight and Communications Talk at the SETI Institute, 11/25/2009, Video on YouTube (Retrieved 09/30/2011)
- Habitable Planet Statistics - Claudio Maccone (SETI Talks) on YouTube
- Claudio Maccone: Breakthrough Discuss Workshop – FOCAL Missions to 550 AU Insuring Interstellar LINKS on YouTube (time 20:18 min.), Stanford University, April 2016
- Claudio Maccone Talk at Milan (Italy) on YouTube, at the Big History Conference on July 15, 2019
- First IAA symposium on Moon Farside protection Three talks by Claudio Maccone at the First IAA Symposium on Moon Farside Protection, Turin (Italy), April 21-22, 2024
- Claudio Maccone@ ADS
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Dr. Claudio Maccone, Ph. D." www.maccone.com.
- ^ a b "SETI League Awards Highest Honors (Press release)". The SETI League, Inc. 27 April 2002.
- ^ "Fifth_IAA_Search_for_Life_Signatures_Symposium" (PDF). International Academy of Astronautics. March 2014.
- ^ "Overview".
- ^ Maccone, Claudio (July 31, 1994). Telecommunications, KLT and relativity. Textbooks in Science and Mathematics. IPI Press. ISBN 978-1-880930-04-5 – via Library Catalogue.
- ^ Maccone, Claudio (2009). Deep Space Flight and Communications: Exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens. Praxis-Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-72942-6.
- ^ "Claudio Maccone - Speech at IAA Dinner in Paris on March 26 2019". November 20, 2020 – via YouTube.
- ^ Maccone, Claudio (July 31, 2012). "Mathematical SETI". SpringerLink. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27437-4. ISBN 978-3-642-27436-7.
- ^ Maccone, Claudio (July 31, 2020). "Evo-SETI". SpringerLink. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-51931-5. ISBN 978-3-030-51930-8.
- ^ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser".
- ^ "Moon Farside Protection". Moon Farside Protection.
